A First Look at the 2008 Schedule

They really need to go back to only counting wins over FCS teams once every four years for bowl-eligibility purposes, or at least only twice in any four-year span. 12 games would be enough to connect the football field at least to the degree that basketball and baseball are connected, considering the number of teams in the Bowl Championship Subdivision compared to the number of teams in the other D-1 sports.

The "hall of shame" for 2008 includes five teams who have two FCS opponents:

Conn%

APL

Team

NT1

NT2

NT3

NT4

52.1

2.49

Western Kentucky

10

52

46

11

42.86

2.55

Texas Tech

10

41

61

7

37.82

2.57

Florida St

10

35

70

4

34.45

2.69

Clemson

10

31

64

14

33.61

2.62

Georgia Tech

10

30

74

5

D1 Average

11.3

44.8

59.4

4.4

Now, we can cut Western Kentucky some slack, since it wasn't that long ago they were an FCS team themselves. But Texas Tech shows up on this list way too often and there's almost no excuse for three ACC teams to be on it.

Inter-conference matchups

Now, this table does look a lot better than last years. Instead of the most non-conference games being against the Sun Belt (and no slight to them) SEC teams have the most games against ACC teams. Alas, the ACC is up to 14 games against FCS teams.

ACC

BigE

B10

B12

ND

P10

SEC

CUSA

Ind

MAC

MW

SBC

WAC

FCS

ACC

∗

4

1

4

2

2

10

5

3

2

0

1

0

14

BigE

4

∗

3

5

2

0

2

5

3

6

0

2

2

7

B10

1

3

∗

2

3

4

0

1

1

13

1

5

1

9

B12

4

5

2

∗

0

3

1

4

1

3

4

6

5

10

ND

2

2

3

0

∗

3

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

P10

2

0

4

3

3

∗

2

0

0

1

7

0

7

2

SEC

10

2

0

1

0

2

∗

8

2

3

1

8

2

9

CUSA

5

5

1

4

0

0

8

∗

3

1

4

8

2

7

Ind

3

3

1

1

1

0

2

3

∗

8

2

5

1

4

MAC

2

6

13

3

0

1

3

1

8

∗

2

2

3

8

MW

0

0

1

4

1

7

1

4

2

2

∗

0

7

7

SBC

1

2

5

6

0

0

8

8

5

2

0

∗

0

3

WAC

0

2

1

5

0

7

2

2

1

3

7

0

∗

7

FCS

14

7

9

10

0

2

9

7

4

8

7

3

7

And it's nice to see that the Big TEleveN "only" plays 13 games against the MAC.